It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better. (Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward)

It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

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